Sentence examples for champion before from inspiring English sources

Gibbons said: "I've never been senior British champion before, so it was great to come away with that title.

Wawrinka has beaten the defending champion before, but that was in 2006.

He reminds his boxers that Ali called himself a champion before he ever won a title.

The immensely tough Spaniard has since revived himself and become a world champion before Frampton.

"Nahhhh," said Jim Courier, a former French Open champion, before coming up with his only anti-Nadal scenario.

He began his journalistic career at the age of 18 with the Sligo Champion before moving to the Carlow Nationalist.

There have been surprising champions before.

(The others — Louisville, Cincinnati and Marquette — were national champions before joining the Big East).

Mountains are made out of molehills, and we coronate champions before they ever win a title.

They eliminated the defending champions before losing narrowly in the quarterfinal.

Those players have been champions before, leading this franchise to the most successful half-decade of its 130-year history.